There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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